If there’s one thing we’ve been taught over the years, is to take some internet rumors from unsubstantiated sources with a grain of salt.

Case in point, a widely circulated report from Stellpower claiming that Dodge and sister company Chrysler will “likely” replace their HEMI V8 with a new 3.0-liter inline-six cylinder named “GME T6” in the next generation 2024MY Challenger and their “platform-mates” like the “Charger and either Magnum or a 300 crossover”. The report claims it received the information from an “unofficial but reliable source.”

The news spread quickly on the web, gaining traction on several news sites that jumped on the story as well as on Reddit threads.

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Naturally, our first instinct was to reach out to Dodge, with a spokesperson telling CarScoops the following:

“[We haven’t] spoken to any of those outlets. The Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger vehicle platforms as you know them today, along with the Hellcat powertrain, will continue production through 2023. In 2024, Dodge will transition to new platforms, new electrified muscle cars (the next generation of that platform will be a BEV, which will be shown in concept-car form Q1 or Q2 2022). We will release additional details in regard to our future Dodge product plans over the next 24 months.”

Dodge’s Next Muscle Cars Will Be Electric Only

And just to make absolutely sure, we asked our press contact if the Challenger and Charger replacements, regardless if they continue with the same names or if they adopt new ones, will be offered exclusively with electric or a mix of BEV (Battery Electric Vehicle) and ICE (Internal Combustion Engines) variants, and his response was: “The brand has only said BEV”.

The inline-six GME T6 engine isn’t a new rumor, far from it, as it’s one that has been persisting for years now, even before it had a name, including in 2018 and 2019. But those were different times and much has changed from when Dodge and Chrysler were under the umbrella of FCA. In 2021, the entire group was merged with France’s PSA forming the Stellantis Group and have since signaled and communicated plans to move to an all-electric future which encompasses their traditional muscle cars, as confirmed by our Dodge contact.

It Doesn’t Make Any Sense, Really

Developing and releasing a new gas engine for a year or two, all while investing in electric powertrains and platforms, is akin to a media group making plans to transition from paper to the internet yet devoting precious funds in a spanking new printing machine. It makes zero sense.

See: Dodge Teases Electric Muscle Car Concept, Looks Like A ’68 Charger

Dodge officials have also said on record that while the Hellcats will die in late 2023, we could see a little overlap between the current ICE-powered Challenger and Charger and their electric muscle car replacements. “We didn’t say that the current cars are going to die in 2024. There might be a little overlap, but you’re not going to have years and years and years of the classic and the new one at the same time,” Dodge chief executive Tim Kuniskis told Muscle Cars & Trucks in August, 2021.

However, in recent months, Stellantis officials have backtracked on the timeline regarding the end of the current Challenger and Charger, with Kuniskis telling Motor Trend a couple of weeks ago that they will both be phased out in late 2023, though you will still be able to find them in dealership lots through 2024.